Raymondville, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Raymondville in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 34.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Raymondville.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Raymondville is from a meaningfully darker sky

76 miles from Raymondville, straight-line, sits Roma, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Raymondville's own suburban edge band.

Roma, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Raymondville compares nationally

About 10,107 people live in Raymondville, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Raymondville places 1,099 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.